Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1147 of 12 June 2023 implementing Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 356/2010 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain natural or legal persons, entities or bodies, in view of the situation in Somalia

Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1147 concerning sanction measures with respect to the situation in Somalia has been published in the Official Journal (OJ) of the EU. The Regulation amends the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Annex I of Council Regulation (EU) No 356/2010 which includes individuals and entities designated by the United Nations (UN) for being engaged in or providing support of acts that threaten the peace, security, or stability of Somalia. The list is amended to add one person to the list:
Entry #22:
Abdullahi Osman Mohamed Caddow (alias: a) Cabdullahi Cusman Maxamed Caddow b) Dhagacade c) Faracade d) Injineer Ismaaciil e) Eng. Ismail).
– Date of Birth: 1983
– Nationality: Somalia
– Address: Somalia
– Date of UN designation: 26 May 2023
– Gender: male
– Other information: INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Individuals.
Abdullahi Osman Mohamed Caddow, also known as “Eng. Ismail” is an al-Shabaab senior explosive expert responsible for the overall management of the group’s explosives operations and manufacturing. In doing so, he has engaged in acts which threaten the peace, security, and stability of Somalia. He has joined the media wing of Al-Shabaab, Al-Kataib in 2008 in Mogadishu and later in 2014 became a member of the explosives manufacturing unit in the group operating in many explosive preparation centers in the towns of Jilib, Bu’aale, Saakoow, Salagle, kuunyo-Barrow, and Arabow. He commands a team of 68 Al-Shabaab operatives and smuggles approximately six million USD of explosives manufacturing material yearly.